Technology Podcasting in Bangladesh: 20 Shows, One Missing Conversation

Quick answer. There are not twenty dedicated technology podcasts in Bangladesh. There are about nine, plus six institutions that use podcast format and five general shows where technology genuinely gets discussed. Across all twenty, the editorial centre of gravity is the same: how do I get into tech, and how do I stay employed in it. Career roadmaps, salary, layoffs, "will AI take my job". What almost nobody covers is the harder and more valuable question — how technology actually runs a Bangladeshi company. Among the twenty shows I reviewed, two have touched ERP. Between them they have fewer than 200 subscribers.

That is the finding. This piece is the companion to my analysis of 30 business podcasts from Dhaka, and the same structural pattern shows up in both.

What actually exists

I checked channel data and the thirty most recent uploads for every candidate, in Bangla and English, across YouTube, Spotify and the podcast directories, on 22 October 2026. Twenty entries survived verification. They sort into three tiers:

• Nine dedicated technology podcasts. Career-focused developer shows, one cybersecurity show, one fintech interview series, and three AI-education channels.
• Six institutional or industry channels using podcast format — the government's startup fund, an ERP vendor, a textile-industry publication, a coding bootcamp, and the two largest tech audiences in the country.
• Five adjacent shows where technology is a strand rather than the subject — the creator-economy podcast that actually gets tech stories to travel, and a few founder-interview shows.

Show	Host / Publisher	Focus	Subs	Median views
Sohag360 — Tech Matters	Sohag (The Tech Doctor)	AI, energy, gadgets	1.92M	—
Tech Talk	Tech Talk BD	Gadget reviews, BTRC/NEIR news	215K	34,000
Programming Hero Bangladesh	Programming Hero	Dev careers, AI tooling	108K	2,750
The Trinomial Podcast	Sadman Sadik, Enayet Chowdhury +1	Creator economy, tech culture	104K	48,500
Phitron (PhiCast)	Phitron	Programming, problem solving	31.6K	575
Amar iSchool	Amar iSchool	CS/tech career podcasts	27.1K	4
Shawon Mir	Shawon Mir	Cybersecurity careers	24.5K	1,750
Sudipta Kar / Cryptex Code	Sudipta Kar (Oracle Health AI)	AI research, tech lives	24.1K	2,200
Abdur Rakib	Abdur Rakib	Developer and AI career interviews	18.1K	817
Inception BD	Inception	AI/ML education	9.7K	1,050
Next Level Web Development	Level 2 Web Dev	Inside The Tech Industry	7.2K	266
Textile Focus — PrismERP	Divine IT / Textile Focus	ERP and industry automation	5.7K	49
Career Crackerz Podcast	Programming Hero	Tech careers, engineering leaders	3.7K	9,950
BuildNation (Yet Another Podcast)	BuildNation	Tech industry, jobs, fintech	3.4K	1,000
Startup Bangladesh Limited	Government venture fund	Startup and tech policy	2.3K	223
Fintech News BD	Fintech News BD	Fintech founders	370	380,000
Voice Uncut	Voice Uncut	AI, IT, ERP, science	123	29
The Startup Show	Startup Association of Bangladesh	Founders, gaming, hardware	95	74
Mithu A Quayium — BIG TALK	Mithu A Quayium	IT industry	81	—
Auto Jukti	AutoJukti	AI automation for SMEs	11	25

Read that table by subscriber count and you learn one thing. Read it by median views and you learn something else entirely — which is the interesting part, and I'll come back to it.

The career gravity

Fourteen of the twenty shows are, at bottom, about getting and keeping a technology job. That is not a criticism; it is the clearest demand signal in the market. Bangladesh produces a very large number of people trying to enter software, data and AI work, and a much smaller number of companies hiring them. The content follows the queue.

The evidence is in the episode titles:

• "২০২৬ সালে এসে এমন কোনো ক্যারিয়ার নেই যা ৩০ বছর টিকে থাকবে" — Programming Hero, on career durability in an AI decade.
• "কোডিং জানলেও চাকরি জুটবে না?" — Career Crackerz, with a senior engineer.
• "Why Big Tech is Laying Off but Hiring Bangladeshis" — Career Crackerz, with a recruiter.
• "AI কোড লিখে দিলে তুমি কী শিখবে?" — Abdur Rakib, with an ex-Amazon and Motorola engineer.
• "AI কি Cyber Security চাকরি শেষ করে দেবে?" — Shawon Mir.

Even the AI content is career content. Almost nothing in that list is about deploying AI. It is about surviving it.

This is the same shape I found in the business-podcast data: content for people entering a field outnumbers content for people running one by a wide margin, because entrants are numerous and reachable, and operators are few and busy.

Three that are genuinely worth your time

Career Crackerz Podcast is the best new technology show in the country and it is twelve episodes old. The guest list is unusually senior for a Bangla podcast: Abdullah Anwar, VP of Engineering at Pathao, on how the company runs systems for millions of users (29,000 views); Julian from SELISE on why "stop coding, start business engineering" is the actual career advice; a recruiter on the paradox of global layoffs alongside Bangladeshi hiring. It is published by Programming Hero, so there is a funnel underneath it — but the questions are real and the guests are not there to sell courses.

Abdur Rakib has the highest ceiling in the niche: 164,000 views on a single episode with Omar Faruk, 32,000 on the AI-and-learning conversation, 16,000 on going from Dhaka to a global engineering role. He is the rare host here who interviews rather than prompts — follow-ups, specifics, disagreement. His median of 817 views across recent uploads understates him badly, because the channel mixes 90-minute conversations with short career clips.

Fintech News BD deserves attention out of all proportion to its size. A 370-subscriber channel produced 636,000 views on its iFarmer episode with Fahad Ifaz, and 575,000 on a Pubali Bank conversation about digital transactions. Whatever distribution mechanism is behind that — and it is almost certainly Facebook rather than YouTube — it is working better than channels fifty times its size. If you want to understand how money actually moves in this country, those two episodes are the most efficient hours available.

Two honourable mentions. Shawon Mir is one person deep in a subject that deserves a whole show: the only sustained cybersecurity podcast I could find in Bangladesh, covering ethical hacking careers, phone-hacking mechanics and whether AI ends security jobs. And Sohag360's Tech Matters is where the macro conversation lives — AGI, nuclear power, whether Elon Musk is good for society — with 1.92 million subscribers to show for it.

The reach paradox

The table above contains a contradiction worth sitting with. Tech Talk has 215,000 subscribers and a median of 34,000 views per upload — healthy. Fintech News BD has 370 subscribers and a median of 380,000. Auto Jukti, publishing genuinely current material on AI agents and n8n automation for small businesses, has 11 subscribers and a median of 25 views.

Subscriber count is not a proxy for anything in this market. Distribution is the product. The channels that grew did it either through a decade of consistency (Sohag360 since 2014), through an existing course audience (Programming Hero), or through off-platform distribution that YouTube's numbers do not reveal (Fintech News BD).

The corollary matters for anyone planning a show: you are not competing on content quality, because quality is already high in the small shows. You are competing on whether anyone will ever be shown your work.

The hole in the middle

Here is what twenty shows and their recent episodes do not contain.

No show in this set has ever walked through an ERP implementation: what it cost, which module broke first, who resisted, what the finance team had to unlearn. No show has examined a procurement cycle, a month-end close, a reconciliation failure, or an inventory-leakage problem in a Bangladeshi company. No show has compared what an AI agent actually changed in a back office — invoices processed, tickets deflected, errors caught — with the numbers attached.

Two entries come near it. PrismERP, a vendor podcast from Divine IT published through Textile Focus, covers industry automation and ERP for apparel — but it is a vendor talking about its own product, with a median of 49 views. Voice Uncut asked the right question outright, "AI Revolution: What is the Future of IT and ERP?", with an ERP practitioner, and drew 123 subscribers and a median of 29 views.

That is the whole of Bangladesh's enterprise-technology podcasting: two shows, under 200 subscribers between them, one of which is vendor content.

The absence is not mysterious. It is economically rational. A conversation about month-end close will not travel; there is no clip in it, no guest with a following, no thumbnail that earns a click from a 22-year-old student. So the topic loses every time to "how I got a job at a global company" — even though the person who needs the ERP conversation controls a budget that the student will not see for a decade.

But the audience economics of that trade are worse than they look. A show watched by 300 finance controllers, operations heads and managing directors in Dhaka is worth more per viewer — to a vendor, to a consultant, to anyone selling into mid-market enterprise — than a show watched by 200,000 students. The market has not priced that yet. Nobody has built the show that would let it.

What would actually work

Three things would separate an enterprise-technology show from the twenty above.

Case studies with numbers attached. Not "we implemented ERP and it transformed us" — but what the licence cost, what the implementation cost, how long it took, which department derailed it, and what the first year actually returned. Bangladesh's implementation failures are an open secret and nobody will say them on camera with figures. The first person who does owns the category.

Short runs, not endless feeds. Twelve episodes on how a garment exporter runs procure-to-pay, then stop. Series formats are easier to sponsor, easier to sell to a guest's compliance team, and they age well — a five-year-old episode about closing the books is still true. A five-year-old episode about AI tools is worthless.

Write it down. Not one of the twenty shows publishes transcripts, substantive show notes, or a newsletter. Every asset dies inside a video file, invisible to search and unreachable by the people who make purchasing decisions on a Tuesday morning in a factory office in Gazipur. Publishing the transcript is not a marketing chore; in this niche, it is the distribution.

The technology podcasting scene in Bangladesh is not thin. It is focused — hard, effectively, on the individual trying to get in. That has produced a handful of genuinely good shows and one enormous one. The company trying to run itself better is still waiting for its show.

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Method. Channel data, subscriber counts and the thirty most recent uploads per channel were checked on 22 October 2026. Median views are computed over recent uploads, which penalises channels that mix course material with episodes — Amar iSchool's median of 4 reflects recent C# classes, not its podcast series, and its archive remains worthwhile. Sohag360's upload tab would not parse programmatically, so no median is given. Five entries have not published in three months or more and are marked as dormant rather than removed. The classification into dedicated, institutional and adjacent tiers is my editorial judgement and is stated openly rather than hidden.

Sources

[1] Author's analysis of recent uploads across 20 Bangladesh-focused technology channels, YouTube, collected 22 October 2026.
[2] Programming Hero Bangladesh — https://www.youtube.com/@ProgrammingHeroBangladesh
[3] Career Crackerz Podcast — https://www.youtube.com/@CareerCrackerzPodcast
[4] Fintech News BD — https://www.youtube.com/@FintechNewsBD
[5] Shawon Mir — https://www.youtube.com/@ShawonMir
[6] Sohag360 — https://www.youtube.com/@Sohag360
[7] Companion analysis: 30 business podcasts from Dhaka — The Business Podcast Landscape in Bangladesh